Foreword by Hugh de Kretser, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission
Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
1 Introduction: The Unfulfilled Promise of the Racial Discrimination Act – Margaret Thornton
2 Why the Racial Discrimination Act Cannot Deliver for Indigenous Peoples: The Constitutional Race Power and Australia’s International Obligations – Asmi Wood
3 Courts’ Institutional Discomfort: Section 10 and Equality Before the Law – Simon Rice
4 The Invisibility of Race in the Debate Concerning Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act – Bill Swannie
5 Parliamentary Committees’ Engagement with the Racial Discrimination Act – Sarah Moulds
6 Negotiating in the Shadow of (and Beyond) the Racial Discrimination Act – Harry Hobbs
7 Adapting the Racial Discrimination Act to a Changing Climate? – Cristy Clark and Beth Goldblatt
8 When Law Cannot See: Visual Racialisation and the Future of the Racial Discrimination Act – Dorota Gozdecka
9 Entwined Histories: The Racial Discrimination Act and Remote Indigenous Employment – Will Sanders and Francis Markham
10 Building the Case: Litigating the Racial Discrimination Act – Dominique Allen
11 Beyond Formal Equality: Reconsidering Fisher v Commonwealth Through an Intersectional Lens of Race, Age, and Life Expectancy – Alice Taylor
12 Race, Gender and Class: Intersectionality in the Context of the Racial Discrimination Act – Margaret Thornton
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